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Stefan Müller
Stefan Müller

Reputation: 284

Post a message to the wall of a page as this page (not the admin)

I want to post to a page named XY and it should appear on the page directly and not as a posting from another user (the admin). This is the code I adapted from http://qscripts.blogspot.de/2011/02/post-to-your-own-facebook-account-from.html but this posts to the area for other users not to the main page. If I replace the page-id number by "me" it posts to admins page and correctly to the main area.

#!/usr/bin/perl -I/opt/ActivePerl-5.16/site/lib/

# http://qscripts.blogspot.de/2011/02/post-to-your-own-facebook-account-from.html

use strict;
use warnings;
use open qw(:std :utf8);
use LWP::Simple;
use YAML;
use JSON;
use URI;
use utf8;

my $access_token = 'top secret';

graph_api('1484559088426611/feed', {
  access_token => $access_token,
  message      => 'Hello World! I’m posting Facebook updates from a script!',
  description  => 'You want to create a script to read messages and post status updates to your own '
                . 'Facebook account, but you find the official documentation confusing and '
                . 'you aren’t sure where to start. Search no more because here you’ll find '
                . 'the easiest way to do just this.',
  method       => 'post'
});


exit 0;

sub graph_api {
  my $uri = new URI('https://graph.facebook.com/' . shift);
  $uri->query_form(shift);
  my $resp = get("$uri");
  return defined $resp ? decode_json($resp) : undef;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 224

Answers (1)

Sahil Mittal
Sahil Mittal

Reputation: 20753

While posting on a page, if you use the access token of a user/admin the post will be published as the user/admin but not as a page itself.

To post on a page as a page itself you should use the page access token. To get a page access token you need the permission manage_pages and you can make a call to /{user-id}/accounts. This way you will get the access token for your page.

Now the good thing is that you can have a page access token that never expires! I've explained with steps here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18322405/1343690

Hope it helps. Good luck!

Upvotes: 4

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